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Forging ahead with new attractions for 2020

2019 was a very successful year for the Hereford Waterworks Museum and 2020 promises to be even better with a range of new events to entertain visitors. The award-winning Waterworks Museum is not just a destination for steam and history enthusiasts - it is one of Herefordshire’s leading attractions with plenty to interest the whole…

Royal Visitor at Hereford Waterworks Museum On 3rd October volunteers at the Waterworks Museum were delighted to welcome a very special visitor - His Royal Highness, The Duke of Gloucester. The Duke, accompanied by the Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire, Lady Darnley, spent an hour touring the Museum and chatting with volunteers. The Museum visit was…

Hereford Waterworks Museum Volunteer Wins Prestigious Award On 11 September Alex Rowe, 20, attended an award ceremony at the Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre where he was announced the winner of the West Midlands Museum Development 2019 Volunteer (Young Person) Award. A final year blacksmithing student at Herefordshire & Ludlow College (Holme Lacy), and the Waterworks Museum’s…

Mayor of Hereford opens new display at Waterworks Museum This year’s annual Gala Day at the Waterworks Museum (Sunday 28th July) saw the Mayor of Hereford, Councillor Kath Hey, unveil a plaque to inaugurate a new display with an interesting and unexpected connection to Hereford. The 1911 Hindley ‘Alcazar’ steam engine originally pumped saline water…

Did You Know?

The Waterworks Museum was first established over 45 years ago in 1974.

In 2015, volunteers welcomed over 5,400 visitors to the Museum (a record year).

Broomy Hill pumping station was built 165 years ago (in 1856) and the site is still used today for pumping water to Welsh Water’s treatment works.

The Museum’s display in the Rotherwas Building is the only permanent exhibition dedicated to Hereford in WWII.

The Museum’s oldest exhibit, a horse drawn fire engine, dates to 1805 and was used on the estate at Stoke Edith.

In 2000, the Museum was on the listed buildings ‘at risk’ register and was at risk of closure.

Volunteers run every aspect of the Museum – we have no paid staff.

Our working triple-expansion steam engine, which stands two-floors high, was built in 1895 and continued in use supplying water to Hereford until 1952.

The Museum’s collection totals over 3,500 items (including books, documents and records relating to the water industry).

The collection includes many important items of our industrial heritage, which but for the intervention of the Museum would have been lost forever.

The main Museum building is one of less than 6% of all Listed Buildings that is rated as Grade II*.

To create the Noel Meeke Heritage Water Park a team of 30 volunteers gave over 2,300 hours of their time.

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Forging ahead with new attractions for 2020

Royal Visitor at Hereford Waterworks Museum

Hereford Waterworks Museum Volunteer Wins Prestigious Award

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